Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 2, 2019 5:37:35 GMT 12
Northland Age 2/7/19
MISAPPROPRIATION
The media report of the te reo name for the baggage claim at Kerikeri airport ie. Peke Kokotaho (bag, testicles, scrotum) might be slightly amusing to boys in the fourth form, but is quite incomprehensible to non-te reo speakers, and will probably need explaining to the three per cent who are te reo speakers.
As ethnically whimsical signage it shows the difficulty of translating from a language known by 20 per cent universally to a primitive one. To accommodate a small ethnic group, 15 per cent, government, by reverting from English to te reo signage for national institutions, is treading further down the path to confusion and inequality.
Surely $500 million a year is enough to promote te reo. When will the government give the public an opportunity to express their opinions on the appropriation of their language?
BRYAN JOHNSON Omokoroa
FAIR WARNING
The 1975 Treaty of Waitangi Act and its amendments that created the apartheid Waitangi Tribunal is a sham, allowed by weak governments over the years that have no idea of the Treaty of Waitangi's purpose and/or its history.
They have been hoodwinked by a few in Maori who are prepared to distort, destroy and twist the Treaty and its translations to satisfy a greed that can never be satisfied until a strong government brings them into line.
These people never seem to ask the question, who are their real ancestors?
Most have more of the ancestry that did all they could to help these people from extinction, but completely overlook this fact for the almighty dollar and land they had sold many times over at the taxpayer's expense.
The time has come when Sir Apirana Ngata's advice should be taken very seriously: "Let me issue a word of warning to those who are in the habit of bandying the name of the Treaty around to be very careful lest it be made the means of incuring certain liabilities under the law which we do not know now and which are being borne only by the Pakeha."
IAN BROUGHAM Wanganui
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MISAPPROPRIATION
The media report of the te reo name for the baggage claim at Kerikeri airport ie. Peke Kokotaho (bag, testicles, scrotum) might be slightly amusing to boys in the fourth form, but is quite incomprehensible to non-te reo speakers, and will probably need explaining to the three per cent who are te reo speakers.
As ethnically whimsical signage it shows the difficulty of translating from a language known by 20 per cent universally to a primitive one. To accommodate a small ethnic group, 15 per cent, government, by reverting from English to te reo signage for national institutions, is treading further down the path to confusion and inequality.
Surely $500 million a year is enough to promote te reo. When will the government give the public an opportunity to express their opinions on the appropriation of their language?
BRYAN JOHNSON Omokoroa
FAIR WARNING
The 1975 Treaty of Waitangi Act and its amendments that created the apartheid Waitangi Tribunal is a sham, allowed by weak governments over the years that have no idea of the Treaty of Waitangi's purpose and/or its history.
They have been hoodwinked by a few in Maori who are prepared to distort, destroy and twist the Treaty and its translations to satisfy a greed that can never be satisfied until a strong government brings them into line.
These people never seem to ask the question, who are their real ancestors?
Most have more of the ancestry that did all they could to help these people from extinction, but completely overlook this fact for the almighty dollar and land they had sold many times over at the taxpayer's expense.
The time has come when Sir Apirana Ngata's advice should be taken very seriously: "Let me issue a word of warning to those who are in the habit of bandying the name of the Treaty around to be very careful lest it be made the means of incuring certain liabilities under the law which we do not know now and which are being borne only by the Pakeha."
IAN BROUGHAM Wanganui
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers